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"The world system is employment."
"Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays."
"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
"Back then, work revolved around life. Today, life revolves around work."
Explore more quotes by Robert Wyatt
"I only choose musicians who I think will emerge, can emerge, with their own character, while still going along with the tune in question."
"This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome."
"I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper."
"In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead."
"I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians."
"I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so."
"The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture."
"Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't."
"It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends."
"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really."
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